Trophies - Martin Warner

The Martin Warner Trophy

Greatest Height Gain Claimed in a Calendar Year

Martin Warner was one of the GFA founders in 1949 As a member of the Sydney Soaring Club he did much research on glider radios, and possibly his club was the only club in Australia using such modern equipment.

Martin was also a keen cross country pilot and it was on one of his cross-countries that he was taken up by a cumulo-nimbus cloud, attaining a height gain of 23,390 feet. At that time the climb was an Australian and British Commonwealth record. It remained an Australian record for many years.

On a number of years the trophy has not been claimed for the greatest gain of height in Australia in the year ending 31st December